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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: 41026@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#41026: Improve documentation of `makunbound' and `fmakunbound'
Date: Sun, 03 May 2020 17:21:14 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83368hqeud.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a72q3wyy.fsf@stefankangas.se> (message from Stefan Kangas on Sat, 02 May 2020 22:25:57 +0200)

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
> Cc: 41026@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 02 May 2020 22:25:57 +0200
> 
> Thanks.  Based on your feedback, this is what I came up with. WDYT?

LGTM, thanks.

> BTW, according to (elisp) Function Cells:
> 
>      Note that void is not the same as ‘nil’ or the symbol ‘void’.  The
>   symbols ‘nil’ and ‘void’ are Lisp objects, and can be stored into a
>   function cell just as any other object can be (and they can be valid
>   functions if you define them in turn with ‘defun’).  A void function
>   cell contains no object whatsoever.
> 
> So I suppose that means that the old `fmakunbound' docstring was
> incorrect in saying: "Make SYMBOL's function definition be nil."?

I think it just said what it did in a confusing way.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-05-03 14:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-02 13:53 bug#41026: Improve documentation of `makunbound' and `fmakunbound' Stefan Kangas
2020-05-02 14:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-02 14:17   ` Stefan Kangas
2020-05-02 14:22     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-02 20:25       ` Stefan Kangas
2020-05-02 21:12         ` Andreas Schwab
2020-05-02 21:30           ` Stefan Kangas
2020-05-04  3:06           ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-04  7:31             ` Andreas Schwab
2020-05-04 12:52               ` Stefan Kangas
2020-05-04 13:05                 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-05-03 14:21         ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-05-03 20:07           ` Stefan Kangas
2020-05-02 14:55 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-05-02 15:00   ` Stefan Kangas
2020-05-02 15:41     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-02 20:22   ` Drew Adams
2020-05-03  3:43   ` Richard Stallman

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